It may be a decade since he last graced a football pitch but Toon legend Alan Shearer has still got it.

Proud son Will tweeted a pic of Shearer smashing a penalty into the top corner.

No keeper would have got near it - even if there had been one standing between the posts.

Will tweeted: “The old man practicing his pens before he goes off to the Euros” along with the video, which has been viewed hundreds of times on Tyneside.

Neatly placing the ball in the top left-hand corner of the goal, he celebrates in the traditional Shearer-style, raising one hand in the air as he did countless times playing for the Magpies and for England.

It’s hardly a surprise that the famous striker keeps a full-sized goal in the garden, and Toon fans were delighted to see that he was keeping in shape.

“Still got it” was a common comment, with plenty of fans suggesting he could easily slip on an England shirt and step out on to the pitch for his country this year.

“What I’d do to have him playing upfront for club and country again,” tweeted Newcastle supporter Josh Rowntree.

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Of course, while Shearer will be heading to France for Euro 2016, it’s as a pundit, not a player.

But if this video is anything to go by, if England find themselves faced with a tense penalty shoot out, they might be tempted to try and call him down from the commentary box.